The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-03-26

u1aC cures, artisAns, MECHANICS of ev-
cry hind--lots of them, ard then far
ming will thrive, end not until then.
Only twenty per cent OF the popu-
lation OF Pennsylvania are farmers.
and her lands were returned in 1880
at $40 per acre, and the average gen
eral product OF each farm worker
was S4oG. Four hundred dollars for
one laborer on the farm Think of
that. No wonder the lands are
high.
Georgia has seyen.y-fiye per cent
of her population on the farms, and
her farming lands average four dol
lars per acre, and the average of farm
labor is one hundred and forty dol
lars per annum.
And SO it is with all the states.
| The rule is as fixed as a law OF ma
ture. Farming land rents in Eng
land at an average of sixty dollars
an acre, that is he rent paid, not the
value Of the land. The more farm
ers the less the value Of q farmers
labor. 1t is the manufactures that
stimulate the farming business and
make it pay. In Pennsylvania twen-
ty farmers have eighty people to feed
who are not farmers. Eighty mouths
open, and hungry, and ready to buy.
In Georgia twenty farmers have only
seven to feed Think of that
No, We do not want any more farm
ers, neither from home nor abroad.
| We want manufacturers. The broom
! factory at Acworth is worth more to
Cobb county than a dozen new farm
ers coming in. The chair factory at
Marietta is worth "A hundred.
The dignity and independence of
agriculture was our pride under the
old system, but there are new forces
now. Wealth is not so much in the
soil as it is in the mines, the forests,
the waterfall and the wonderIuiness
of steam In the old times our fathers
wanted but few things of mechanical
contrivapce. Now we want thou
sand, yes, ten thousand. If ! was a
member of our legislature | would
lift IN my voice and offer bonus to
every manufactory that employed
fifty or more workmen; a bonus of
exemption from taxation for 10 years
if nothing more. Georgia cannot IA
vor manufacturers without benefit
ting the farmers. A large iron riant
near Cartersville would double the
value of the contiguous lands. Farm
ing lands have quadruplsd for five
miles around Admission. The iron
plant of Mr.. West at Cedartown
doubled the value of all that proper
ty, both the town and its suburbs.
The booms that are raging like an
epidemic at Birmingham and Shef-
field and Salem and Chattanooga are
all based upon manufactures. We
ought to have boom in Barlow, for
we have as much iron and more man
ganeese. and Il finer water power than
is this side of the Mississippi. There
is property right here on the banks
of the Etowah, consisting of seven
teen thousand acres, that is worth
more in minerals than any that can
be found, but the boom hasn't struck
it yet. 1t will strike it before long,
and when northern capital plants
here her furnaces and rolling mills
we farmers will all get fat, for there
will be demand for everything that
we can raise. So we will possess our
souls with patience and wait awhile
longer for the boom. ] saw a big load
of fodder going by this morning. 1t
was made ten miles from town and
will bring about four dollars when 1t
gets there. 1t ought to bring twice
that at home. Nobody can standthese
prices but the negroes, and they don't
care whether their labor brings little
or much. They will spend it all any
how for tritlcs and be happy still
The fern is a home and that is all,
and that is II good deal. 1t is the
pleasantost home in the world. There
is nothing like 1t in town or city. 1T
Is the best place to raise up the chill
dren; the best places for grandchild-
rem to come to and frOic and be hap
py, but to make 1t success the farm
ers must have something outside
some other income, either from labor
or capital. Sanford Bell has good
little farm and he enjoys 1t, but he
says IL takes most of his income as q